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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

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Two artists, two moments.

Compare Beardsley and Clarke with Poe’s words. Follow the story into film and music, with the ending kept behind a reveal.

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Tales, Wiley & Putnam, 1845, pp. 64–82. Beardsley’s 1894 drawing and Clarke’s 1919 illustration, reproduced from a Duke copy catalogued 1923.

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